This adult luna moth has a very penetrating gaze. These moths are quite large, and their caterpillars produce silk shortly before the pupa stage of their development. Get a closer view of the image ...

Light green, long winged, and roughly the size of a playing card, the luna ... moths flutter their wing “tails” to throw incoming bats off target, often diverting attack. Art by Jessica ...

Spinning tails on the moths' wingtips scramble bats' echolocation signals to keep the moths from being eaten (00:07) Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing ...

The big, pale green swallow-tailed luna moth is an example of all of these things, as is the cecropia moth, which can be 15cm across. Another reason we dislike moths is that they normally come out ...

From moths eating their own mothers to carnivorous caterpillars on the rampage, the world of insects isn't always as it seems. Some species of moth have developed dark and unusual habits in the fight ...

By removing the leaves in the fall, you remove the area where they can hibernate. Luna moths are stunning, and worth protecting. Consider them when you’re going overboard cleaning up the yard in ...

By Holland Cotter Lisa Schiff acknowledges stealing millions from major collectors who trusted her to buy them fashionable art. By Sarah Maslin Nir His Brutalist buildings, praised during the ...

Butterfly and moth wings can be stunningly beautiful. More importantly, some have colourful and elaborate patterns that serve as a defence against hungry predators. There are many butterfly and moth ...

Isolation coupled with slowing down opened the New York City-based musician eyes and ears to nature, in particular to moths. He grew up in Canada where he studied clarinet and saxophone performance.

There aren’t many things that my husband and I fight over, but the JBL Clip 5 is on that list. I normally win the custody battle, which is why you can almost always find it in my bag (along with ...

Have you ever been outside on a cool morning and seen a luna moth (Actias luna)? What about a viceroy butterfly (Limenitis archippus) visiting your milkweeds that you might have mistaken for a ...

The Smithsonian’s museums display objects from our collections that span the breadth of art and design from the ancient to the modern-day, from the whimsical to the practical. Along with our ...